₦airaland Forum

thesicilian:
Most people who say "leave Lagos and go back to your state" are not even from Lagos. But that aside, you mean you don't see anything wrong with the state government charging you for a solar panel you bought with your own money and placed in your own house to tap energy from the sun because this same government failed to provide you with electricity that you're already paying for?

Most of those asking you to leave lagos aren't from lagos,not a problem but they arent complaining or overtly critical of the govts policies.......if you feel lagos govt is getting too oppressive for your liking, why not explore somewhere else you feel cheaper......people are emigrating out of London just because the living expense is higher compared to other places in the UK.

There are somethings just not worth getting pained ir fighting over.

Naijahero1:
So subsidy removal and multiple taxation can't run a government? How many countries have borrowed from Nigeria? Which grows its economy through reckless borrowing?

How much taxes are you paying to govt,how much is the value of the subsidy removal,just N5tr,if you divide that by 220million nigerians and share equally,20k noh go reach ur hand......nah that money you wan take run a whole country.

ayoolataiwo:
The nation economy has been mismanaged since the present and past administration.Purchasing power hasn't been this worse.May Nigeria rise again

A thousand naira is equivalent to 74 cents,she should show us how many things that can get her in America.....that 1k will get you a derica of rice or beans or garri enough to feed a family of 5 with some change......4 packs of noodles that can feed 2 people,can get you a plate of lunch,2.5 gb of data to you for 2 days with some change

Half a kilo of cooking gas is less than 1k and can keep a family of 5 for 2 days or more,if not for trump 1k would have gotten you a loter of petrol with some change......she should come tell us how much 74cents can get you in her country.

MrSly:
Tinubu never founded any of those parties. He was only a co- founder in APC.

1. Social Democratic Party (SDP) was created by the Nigerian military government under Ibrahim Babangida
Tinubu was just a member and later was elected senator in 1992.

2. Alliance for Democracy (AD) was formed by pro-democracy leaders, especially from NADECO, including figures like Abraham Adesanya and Bola Ige. Tinubu was just a member and later became Governor of Lagos State

3. Action Congress (AC)
was formed from a split/restructuring of AD led by several politicians, including Atiku Abubakar and other opposition figures
Tinubu’s role is that of a leader and influencer in its formation

4. Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN)
was found through evolution/rebranding of AC driven by party leadership, including Bola Ahmed Tinubu and other senior figures
Tinubu’s role here is mainly major architect and a kind of a dominant leader

5. All Progressives Congress (APC)
was formed in 2013 through a merger of ACN, CPC, ANPP, and factions of APGA
Key figures include:
Bola Ahmed Tinubu
Muhammadu Buhari
Atiku Abubakar (early merger talks)
Ogbonnaya Onu

Tinubu’s role is co-founder.

Always know whatever you want to speak about.

Foundational member,founding member,founder whats the difference, ok let me agree without conceding that he didn't found the parties but he was a foundational member of each and every on of them and was influential in their ideological development and successes,would you rather that........which of the parties obi has been gallivanting to was he in anyway a founding member including the last one he tried to hijack.

Bros, the 7 days you told us something tragic will happen to terrorist and their sponsors done elapse oh......we never hear anything ,we still dey wait that one abeg!!

He founded all those political parties mentioned,he never jumped ship into someone else's party and never hijacked or went ahead to cause confusion in any party......he built parties from the ground and was committed to ensuring their ideological rigidity and success u like the likes of atiku, obi e tal!!

So you rather the entire country runs aground and givt stops functioning because of lack of funds to run the country......just because you don't like tinubu.

Can you pls tell us how much Nigeria makes annually and tell us what are projected expenditure is in 2026......govt has introduced tax reforms so as to shore up revenues, you all shouted no tinubu wants to kill you,now they are resorting to borrowing, you are still crying that why is he borrowing too much........is it your own money he wants to be using to run the country.......be honest enough to provide ur fellow gullible ones with the facts of the countries earnings

The AKK gas pipeline which is almost completed will greatly improve power generation for Abuja and the north as gas will be readily available through this project to power new plants there by reducing pressure on existing ones.

santopelele:
Did your tinubu remove subsidy to suffer the masses or he remove the subsidy to use the money to dash the governors, senators and his cronies?

Are you aware govt is paying subsidy on that electricity you are using in your house,are tou aware your farmers are been given subsidies on some farm inputs so they can grow affordable food for you.,are you aware your givt isn't making enough revenue to even run the country so they have to borrow..........are you aware all the monies previous govts before tinubu borrowed have to be paid back with higher interest rates and tinubu has to pay whether he likes it or not.?

Are you aware civil servants salaries have been increased by over 100% and more are still being employed yearly and its part of your subsidy savings......are you aware your govs are now getting quadruple of what they used to as allocations the reason is so they can do more in their states so the savings can get down to you,they are supposed to provide quality and affordable education for your children, good health care facilities for your family?


All these are subsidy savings being used for you ,if tinubu was to divide what Nigeria used to pay as subsidy and share equally ro every nigerian,nah only 18,000 naira go reach your hand......that one reach you chop for 1 week?

santopelele:
Una go just dey support rubbish as if we are blind and illiterates. You remove subsidy and makes things cost to common man, yet we can't see the value of why you remove it, you still dey on top dey borrow trillions of naira everyday.
Oga tell your president to return the subsidy before thunder go fire him

Noh go hustle and legally better your life dey wait make subsidy comeback......nah hungri go kii u.

Justabdul1:
Nigerians do not merely struggle to survive; they struggle to live without light. Darkness has become a common denominator for most citizens. If a person is not trapped in the darkness of kidnappers’ dens, they are certain to face the darkness caused by the recurring collapse of the national grid.
The experience differs by location. In some parts of the country, people doubt the grid exists at all. For them, electricity is a term encountered only in the dictionary.

Does Nigeria still have a functional national grid? Why is the entire nation in darkness? During President Tinubu’s recent visit to Jos, the airport could not provide ten minutes of power to honour his ‘generous’ ten-minute meeting with survivors of the senseless killings — killings enabled by maladministration and misgovernance.

Let me share some sad news. I do not mean to be pessimistic. We may not have stable electricity again. If we are lucky to have stable power in the future, that would be perhaps after the Tinubu government in 2027 or 2031 — as the case may be — or when he is no more, should he become life president. The reason is simple: he, and the presidency, no longer need the national grid, because greed teaches selfishness.

Since it was announced that Aso Villa now runs on solar-powered electricity, I have a feeling Nigerians will hug darkness for a very long time. Many have realized this and become hopeless. Out of that hopelessness, those who have the means are installing solar panels to say no to darkness. They choose self-reliance in power generation because the government has proven, beyond doubt, to be unreliable.

However, the growing number of solar users has become a source of concern to the Lagos State Government. As if on behalf of God, or with God’s permission, Lagos now monetizes the sun — a free gift of nature. Solar users in government-owned housing estates must seek government approval before installing panels. The approval, of course, is not free. It comes with a fee. If you think you’re smart to be self-reliant, the government in Lagos is saying you will be punished with a fine for being smart.

Since a clip of some Lagos ministry officials harassing a resident at the Millennium Housing Estate over an unapproved solar panel went viral, Nigerians have not stopped asking: Where else on earth are citizens charged a ‘sun tax’?

The question is valid. But Lagos is not the first to impose fees on solar panels. It is only that the rationale differs. In the few cities where such fees exist globally, they apply because users remain connected to the national grid; they are not off-grid. In Lagos, the fees have nothing to do with the grid. They have everything to do with greed, going by official explanation. I will come back to this.

For now, the state insists a solar installation counts as an “alteration” requiring a government permit — at a cost. This begs the question: What exactly does a solar installation alter? The government says structural changes to buildings need approval under the Lagos State Urban and Regional Planning and Development Law.
In light of this, government officials claim solar installation “may” affect the integrity or design of residential structures. I wonder why a government that fails to protect the integrity of Nigeria and Nigerians is so obsessed with protecting the integrity of building design. Isn’t this a misplacement of priorities? Are we mentally stable? Isn’t this shameful?

A government that should bury its head in shame for its inability to provide something as basic as electricity is now on the prowl, taxing an already bleeding populace for finding an alternative to power supply. Isn’t it shameful that the ‘mega city’ single-handedly and painstakingly built by Tinubu cannot provide electricity? What exactly is metropolitan about Lagos if Lagosians, like remote villagers, have no power supply in the 21st century?

As I wrote earlier, Lagos isn’t the first city to introduce solar installation fees — or, preferably, a ‘sun tax’. We read that Spain tried imposing a tax on self-consumed solar in 2015 but repealed it after three years in 2018. Why? The European Union called it illegal. Spanish citizens called it stupid. This columnist joins other Lagosians to call fees on solar installation stupid and ridiculous. It is ridiculous because sunlight is a free gift of nature. The government plays no role in the sun’s appearance and does not determine when it sets.

India, at one point, also introduced solar fees but banned them in 2022 and directed the states to issue free permits. Why? It was reasoned, and rightly so, that sunlight is not a privilege. It is a utility the government does not provide, cannot provide, and will never provide. Citizens get it free from God. No number of solar panels installed could reduce the supply of sunlight or make the sun collapse like our national grid, which habitually collapses.

The government might try to justify such levies by claiming solar users are connected to the national grid. That argument will not stand, for several reasons. Here are three. First, to impose levies on solar users, there must be a functional grid that is relatively stable. Second, there should be net-metering that allows solar users to feed the starving grid.

In serious countries, the relationship between solar users and the grid is give-and-take. It is called net-metering. This is how it works: when the sun is high and your panels produce more power than your house needs, the excess flows into the grid and your meter runs backwards. At night, you draw from the grid and the meter runs forwards. At the end of the month you pay only for the “net” difference. If you gave the grid more than you took, the electricity company owes you credits. The grid becomes your battery. You help it by day; it helps you by night. Lagos and Nigeria should learn from Kenya, Germany and even South Africa. That is how those countries treat citizens who solve power problems with their own money. If the government cannot make solar panels and other solar gadgets cheaper, it should not punish us for finding a legitimate way out of darkness.

The third reason the “connected to the national grid” argument will not stand is simple: not all solar users are connected to the grid. Many are off-grid and get no backup from the grid. It would be crass greed for the government to impose levies on them. Lagos cannot tax Lagosians for sunlight. This must be vehemently rejected. If Lagos, or Nigeria, wants to charge solar users ‘grid availability fees’, then it should make the grid available.

Lastly, if residents in government-owned estates are taxed for sunlight today and the rest of us look away, we will be the next target. Again, if rulers in Lagos are allowed to have their way, rulers in other states will start imposing a ‘sun tax’ on citizens in copycat fashion. If they ultimately succeed, the masses will soon pay for the air they breathe. We may also be taxed for the wells we dig in our compounds, followed by a rainy-season tax for rain that falls on our streets.

May God heal this country. The country is sick.

Abdulkadir Salaudeen
salahuddeenabdulkadir@gmail.com

Leave lagos and go back to your state where the sun is free u dont get what the complaints is all about.

obonujoker:
Jonathan government was the most prosperous and Blessed government for Nigerians, but we allowed occultic and evil men take over.

However by 2027, we are dismantling all evil structures and voting in a people centric government.

I bet you were deaf or utterly drunk when that same Jonathan and his co ordinating minister of the economy were shouting for everyone to hear that the subsidy regime was unsustainable and had to go......he himself asserted that he lacked the balls to do it at the time and tinubu should be commended for taking the bold decision to remove it.

List the names of the contractors and the projects they did including tbe terms and tenor.....its not enough to just make blanket assertions without proof.

Wizardslayer:
Just sit down and watch DSS swing into action like lion because the petition is coming from the first class citizens.

Has the DSS arrested that imam that put a million naira bounty on a pastor's head??

Were reverse to be case here.

Not under tinubu 's watch,that ain't gonna happen,not ever......they should count their losses and move on.

Nigeria has a higher GDP than all those countries but our huge population makes out per capita pittance......Nigeria even has a higher gdp than Qatar but Qataris low population of jizt over 3 million makes their per capita dwarf nigeria's.......$71,000 to $1,200.

If the expenditure (recurrent &capital)side of your budget is higher than your expected revenue, then your budget will run into deficit which is the difference between both components.......you have to finance that deficit so that your budget doesn't fail.

Nigeria's 2025 budget deficit was about N13trn while projected subsidy payments was about N5tr......if you were tobuse basic income and expenditure analogy your subsidy savings isn't even enough to fund your budget deficit.....therein lies a bit of the answer to your question.

You need to service your debts and you arevare obligated to pay them.momies meant for construction of roads,hospitals and other social amenities is being used to cater for.

It's common on opay,its happened to me severally......I wanted to send my woman money,early morning cool and calm at home with no pressure whatsoever not until after and hour she asked why I hadn't sent the money,I was livid because I was sure I had, lo and behold when I checked,the money went into an account that wasn't similar in anyway and i hadn't had any transaction with in months.....thank God it was someone we knew and we could easily contact......opay is faulty on this.

1nice:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7LuLPjHCqY&pp=ygUhRWxkZXJseSB3b21hbiBzaG91dGluZyBhdCB0aW51YnUg

Your point exactly, where in Nigeria won't you find beggars.

PulaPower:
Na why I no dey drink those drinks. Their fake spread yakata. It’s too glaring..

I’m also seeing Campari and others… Im not surprised..

The only Nigeria drink wey I see say e hard to make the fake is Origin bitters… Its been only drink that has been the same ever since they started..

Dey dia make pant dey wear u!! Which original noh get fake?

osuofia2:
Tell us their names, let's shame their generation.
Chai, see William Lawson and Jameson for there

You noh see jacky and red label,these guys are heartless,killing their fellow citizens in the name of being smart.

esnbrutality:
Dude if the economy is vibrant and buoyant school fees for tertiary education wont be an issue.

Stop the cap.

I really appreciate the fact you are confirming your own ignorance yourself.........in the western world which have buoyant economies and good educational systems,how many of their citizens can afford tertiary education without resorting to educational loans,same thing tinubu introduced but to you, its bad for Nigeria but good for those ones.

[quote author=chidiokay post=139187359][/quote]You keep lmrambling on about enabling environment, you haven't had light for 3 hrs a day but its not same where I am,you are the one that knows where you live but power generation has been restored by the gencos,I wouldn't understand why you aren't getting light and yes govt is paying subsidy on electricity don't argue what you don't know.

I really can't comprehend much of your incoherent nonsense but is tinubu the reason why fuel jumped off to 1,300,there was protest in Kenya just this week because of rising fuel prices,is nigeria immuned from global headwinds.

You were dancing and rejoicing when rice jumped up to 100k,yapping on about how tinubu had failed not acknowledging the fact that your farmers that were empowered by same govt with billions to produce same rice failed woefully despite givt ban on imports to protect them but what did we get,high prices and scarcity but tinubu is the one to blame in your hate filled mind.

Basic123:
We agree that Nigeria is poor.The total budget of Nigeria is nor even up to 25% of what UK budget to education alone.Our income doesnt commeasurrate with our GDP

I also agree with you that hard reform should be made.One Tinubu main policy is to make enough money from our GDP through reforms such as the tax reform,subsidy removal and naira floatation.No president looking for second term should be carrying out such bold reforms but the president still did it.

What has beem people reaction to those reforms so far? Despite the fact that we all know that those things needed to be done.If all the presidents opponents agreed during their campaign

Many Nigerians are very ignorant about the economy and the sad part is they are the most vociferous critics who have no knowledge of the basics......you want the best education, beautiful roads, excellent health care,24 hrs electricity but tou aren't willing to pay or sacrifice whats required.

Nigeria's budget isn't up to that of california or new York or texas and these stated still have far fewer population than ours,why wouldn't they get better amenities and social welfare......Qatar has more oil than nigeria but nigeria has a bigger GDP this is a plus bonus but the downside is Qatar has a far lower population thereby raking per capita income of $71k compared to our our paltry $1k and you want to compare yourselves to Qataris.

Only 20% of Nigerians pay tax, oil revenues is far lower than what UK with a lower population earns in taxes alone and you want to enjoy what they enjoy over there.

dalongjnr:
Image laundering at it's pick.
Your parents where comfortably paying #40k per year,Tinubu hike the fees to over 200k per year,you took loan to pay the remaining 150k and you are still clapping?
Honestly, intelligence is subjective.

"Tinubu hiked the fees" can you now confirm how ignorant you are of how the system runs.......which part of the developed world can 40k for tertiary education do anything meaningful for the schools.

nairalanda1:
Universities are still poorly funded. NELFUND Is an acceptance of reality, but it does not hide the fact that fees are scanty and that our education budget by international standards is also scanty.

You guys, should face reality. Nigerian economy is still wack because your leaders do not want to make the hard choices needed to make it first world type...that would provide an enabling environment for better funding for our schools.

Sorry to rain on your parade, but I have been seeing this kind of thing year in and out. I benefited from federal government scholarship under Obasanjo, as did many others. Our universites were still wack at the end of it. Hostels are bad, and facilites for learning are terrible, and remain terrible.

How much are tou willing to pay for that good education you are talking about.

gigabyte13:
You convinced someone to join a group you are part of and you ran away from that group leaving the person behind.........
Fraudulent human being
Gbajueeee
A man of integrity indeed

There are many who were seeking to contest 27 elections under LP,they had invested time,energy and money only for obi to jettison them and left them high and dry.....the entire momentum already dead.

israelmao:
Obi is not having intentions to do that there other parties which are ready to embrace him excitedly if things didn't go as planned in ADC.

You obviously didn't read the post or you just didn't understand all she said........after the 10th of may 2026 nobody can move to another party to get ticket to contest elections because they would have missed the registration time stipulated by inec, she was only implying that obi is running out of time as he wouldn't be able to get the ticket of any party when the time elapses.

kenn4rill:
That has been the initial plan of the federal government, but this time around they have failed because Nigerians have decided to take their destiny in their own hands.

Hope that your destiny isn't to result to civil disobedience,bodi go tel u!!

tonesky:
This is what this clown at the helm of our country is using our tax payers money to do against giving us light, food, shelter and medical care. May his generation never see in good both hell and hellfire.

He os paying subsidy on that very light you are using daily,is he supposed to be buying you food everyday? you cried about rice but now its cone down, inflation too has halved but here you are still looking for food to eat,better ask your neighbour how he is being able to feed,because you live in Russia,govt should build a house for every citizen.......go ask your state gov for your primary and secondary healthcare needs,he is doing what he can on the tertiary which is his responsibility......he just encouraged local production of certain drugs so as to be able to make them more affordable and create jobs,but you won't see all these,you are only filled with hate and anger.......go get a life dude.

Macphenson:
Looks like somebody has been shown the preview of the judgement via the emperor.

Gombe how far did your convention go?

They issued a statement that they never called or fixed any date for any convention,that it was the handy work of dishonest party hijackers and their followers such as yourself.

Whats your price per ton